The Inquisitor at the Table: Food and Identity in the Mediterranean Tribunals of the Roman Inquisition

This article explores the Roman Inquisition’s interest in the dietary practices of suspected heretics throughout the Roman Catholic Mediterranean. In an era marked by rampant religious nomadism and a deep uncertainty about assaying and fixing confessional identity, dietary practices were often used...

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Published inReligions (Basel, Switzerland ) Vol. 14; no. 5; p. 619
Main Author Dursteler, Eric R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2023
Subjects
Analysis
Book publishing
Christians
confessionalism
Confessions
cross-cultural encounters
Diet
Food
Identity
Inquisition
Islam
Mediterranean
Men
Methods
Nomads
Pork
Protestantism
Religion
Religious aspects
Religious conversion
Roman Inquisition
Social aspects
Spirituality
Tribunals & commissions
United States
New York
United Kingdom
France
Malta
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Summary:This article explores the Roman Inquisition’s interest in the dietary practices of suspected heretics throughout the Roman Catholic Mediterranean. In an era marked by rampant religious nomadism and a deep uncertainty about assaying and fixing confessional identity, dietary practices were often used to determine religious belonging. For the Roman Inquisition, non-conforming diets served as a clue to potentially more serious spiritual infractions. In the early modern Mediterranean, what one ate was considered a sign of what one believed.
ISSN:2077-1444
2077-1444
DOI:10.3390/rel14050619